Fraps should be more dependent on your hard drive than CPU/RAM. the Fraps codec is lossless, so the encoding speed should be quite fast. if your recording at 1920x1080 @ 60 FPS, the bitrate will be massive. and i would imagine the video to be saved in short bursts, not steadily. my laptop's hard drive write speed tops out at about 50 MB/s, so normal desktop ones should be maybe 80MB/s?

anyways, i see nothing wrong with the in-game recorder on MPEG4. much better than recording at halfscreen, then upscaling back up.

You don't need to record in full size. 1080p makes really no difference for CA videos. Half size at 1980 x 1020 and 60 fps is perfectly fine. Video quality in the end depends on the render.inb4threadaboutwhatrendersettingsdoiuse